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Illusion
of Victory: Americans in World War I
by Thomas Fleming; Price: £8.57 (10% off)
Customer Review: In his latest work, The Illusion of
Victory, Thomas Fleming attempts the same revisionist approach to
history that served him so well in his previous work, The New
Dealer's War. In Illusion, the subject is Woodrow Wilson and his
handling of America's role in World War I. That may seem an easy
target, but Fleming has produced... [read
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 Cataclysm:
The First World War as Political Tragedy
by David Stevenson; Price: £19.05
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 The
Advance from Mons 1914: The Experiences of a German Infantry
Officer
by Walter Bloem; Price: £21.95
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 Mud,
Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the Great War
by Gordon Corrigan; Price: £7.19 (20% off)
Customer Review: The author's intention is to debunk some
of the "factoids" accepted as truth in histories of the
1st World War. In this he follows on from people like John
Terraine who have been attempting this for years. By concentrating
on the Western front he avoids having to deal awkward arenas like
Gallipoli, Kut etc in order to better... [read
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 The
West Point Atlas for the Great War
by Thomas E. Greiss; Price: £13.20 (10% off)
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 Sniping
in France 1914-18: With Notes on the Scientific Training of
Scouts,Observers,and Snipers
by H. Hesketh- Prichard; Price: £21.95
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 Beneath
Flanders Fields: The War Underground 1914-1918
by Peter Barton; Price: £21.00 (30% off)
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 Tunnelling
to Freedom: And Other Escape Narratives from World War I
by Hugh Durnford; Price: £7.32 (10% off)
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 Trench
Knives and Mustard Gas: With the 42nd Rainbow Division in France
by Hugh S. Thompson; Price: £20.50
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Journey
Through a Minefield
by Stuart Blofeld; Price: £8.99
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 Imperfect
Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business
of World War II
by Stuart Eizenstat; Price: £7.84 (10% off)
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 Man
with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten,
Himmler's Private Doctor
by Joseph Kessel; Price: £10.49 (30% off)
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 To
the Victor the Spoils: D-day and VE Day, the Reality Behind the
Heroism
by Sean Longden; Price: £17.50 (30% off)
Customer Review: What the previous reviewer thinks the
vain, idle wasters of big brother have to do with this book is a
mystery but at least Mr Luke you managed to remove your posterior
from the sofa long enough to buy, and avert your eyes from the
goggle box long enough to read this book. One of the most
significant days in all history D-da... [read
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Squadron
by Wojtek Matusiak; Price: £6.99 (30% off)
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 To
War in a Tin Can: A Memoir of World War II Aboard a Destroyer
by James H. Patric; Price: £20.50
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 Rome
'44: The Battle for the Eternal City
by Raleigh Trevelyan; Price: £6.99 (30% off)
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 Fantasies
of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust
by Gary Weissman; Price: £17.50
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 Pendulum
of War: Three Battles at El Alamein
by Niall Barr; Price: £14.00 (30% off)
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Parade
of the Dead: A U.S. Army Physician's Memoir of Imprisonment by the
Japanese, 1942-1945
by John R. Bumgarner; Price: £13.50
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 Spitfires,
Thunderbolts, and Warm Beer: An American Fighter Pilot Over Europe
by Philip D. Caine; Price: £4.87
Customer Review: If you have any interest in WW2, WW2
fighter pilots, or are just an aviation buff, this book is a must
read. Written based on diary entries, letters home, and interviews
of LeRoy Gover, the result is a hard to put down account of one
man as he goes into the RAF and eventually into the Army Air
Corps. While Gover wan't one of... [read
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 Hurricanes
Over Singapore: RAF, RNZAF and NEI Fighters in Action Against the
Japanese Over the Island and the Netherlands East Indies, 1942
by Jerry Parker; Price: £13.99 (30% off)
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 Normandy
1944: The Road to Victory
by Richard Doherty; Price: £17.50 (30% off)
Customer Review: The invasion of Normandy was the greatest
military operation in history involving servicemen from Great
Britain, Canada and the USA. It could so equally have been the
greatest disaster - and had that happened, nobody would have been
celebrating it's 60th anniversary. Instead, what commenced with an
assault on 5 separate beac... [read
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 The
Bielski Brothers
by Peter Duffy; Price: £7.32 (10% off)
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 The
Quiet Heroes: British Merchant Seamen at War
by Bernard Edwards; Price: £17.69
Customer Review: The song or prayer "For those in
peril on the sea" refers to the dailybattle seafarers
encounter from the oceans and elements regularly faced.Ships
formed into war-time Convoy's for purported greater safety,
toooften presented a skittle-alley to subamarine torpedoes, a
fairgroundshooting-range to armed raiders or battleships... [read
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 Nesarim:
Child Survivors of Terezin
by Thelma Gruenbaum; Price: £12.95
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 You're
Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger
by Roger Hall; Price: £7.81 (10% off)
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 B-17's
Over Berlin: Personal Stories from the 95th Bomb Group
by Ian Hawkins; Price: £5.40 (20% off)
Customer Review: I read this book having visited the
wartime airfields of Parham and Horham in Suffolk where the 95th.
Bomb Group were based. It helped me and others who borrowed the
book to understand more about local wartime events by means of a
remarkable collection of personal memories collected from both
servicemen and the local communi... [read
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 Kilroy
Was There: A G.I.'s War in Photographs
by Tony Hillerman; Price: £13.61
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 Hitler's
Renegades: Foreign Nationals in the Service of the Third Reich
by Christer Jorgensen; Price: £14.00 (30% off)
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 The
Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
by Alex Kershaw; Price: £7.32 (10% off)
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 Helmet
for My Pillow: The True, Incredible Story of the US Marines in
World War II
by Robert Leckie; Price: £4.79 (20% off)
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 Thunder
in the East: The Nazi-Soviet Struggle 1941-1945
by Evan Mawdsley; Price: £25.00
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 The
Black Devils March a Doomed Odyssey: The 1st Polish Armoured
Division 1939-1945
by Evan McGilvray; Price: £32.95
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 The
Second World War
by John Stevenson; Price: £56.00
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 The
Second World War
by John Stevenson; Price: £16.99
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 From
Anzio to the Alps: An American Soldier's Story
by Lloyd M. Wells; Price: £14.67 (10% off)
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 Midway
by Philip D. Grove; Price: £10.49 (30% off)
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 Battlecruiser
HMS "Hood": An Illustrated History
by Bruce Taylor; Price: £35.00
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